"I'd love to."

Here's all their income (mostly still from Laurië's singing career but some other Elves have started exporting recordings and there's a growing trade in minor magic items bottlenecked entirely by the slowness of making them) and here are their charitable outflows and what can be most straightforwardly redirected to preventing accidental children and here are the nations with which treaties have been signed and here are the pending ones and here are the trade agreements -

It's delightful. Isabella memorizes it all and has suggestions and makes plans to improve things.

Which will be put to good use!

Eventually Isabella and several of the eclipsed imports pack up to go home for Christmas. "Do you want to be able to initiate conversations? Usually I only let Alex do that unless it's an eclipse but I can set it up for you."

"Sure, might be a good idea - I'm not expecting anything to come up, but -"

"Yeah. Okay, there you go - it's a little different from osanwëing somebody, I don't know if you'll be able to do it while I'm in osanwë range actually..."

"Bounce what it feels like?"

"It's different for me!"

"Okay. If there's an emergency I bet I'll be able to figure it out."

"I guess it should be approximately like" [whatever this feels like for you when I switch.]

"Huh. Okay, can do."

"Try it?"

[Hi?]

[There you go, congratulations. Took Alex most of an hour.]

[I'm already telepathic, just feels like - using a different angle -]

[Mm-hm. Figuring out osanwë was a little like that for me.]

Anyway, have a - no - [have a lovely Christmas, I won't bother you unless all of Valinor's on fire or something.]

[You probably wanna call a mage about that one. Unless you discover the fire when it has been going on less than an hour, I suppose.]

There's an interesting - has anyone ever reported to you in a precognition "I just realized this must be a precognition and thus I'm going to stop existing really soon, oh no -"

No; I'm not sure if that's because for some reason that's not how precognition works or because they're usually going 'oh shit everyone's dead' and not thinking about philosophy.

Bet my mother does it, if it ever comes up. Anyway, have nice holidays.

Thanks. I should probably not bring back an ugly sweater for you?

That remains the least comprehensible human tradition!

I bet there are weirder ones!